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// Even Princess' can kick alien butt 
// Story: True Gamer 
// by WishSeeker 
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'Come on Luna, we are the princess of the night, this is just a game. We will go down the corridor, shoot every being that moves, then leave. On the count of three, one, two, three.'

"Die for thou art a pathetic wretch, argh!" Luna's blue aura enveloped the controller as she forced the sticks to flick.

Opposite her bed, a huge screen displayed a first pony view of Luna's character. Beyond the screen was a blue space-age weapon, shots of green energy darted from the end. The strange projectiles rushed through the smooth purple corridor of a space station setting, before finally hitting a strange looking creature.

This creature seemed to be twice the size of normal ponies, it's knees were reversed – the front legs bent back while the back bent forward – the end of each were more like dragon claws than hooves. The beast had no coat, instead scales covered with smooth blue armor, very similar to the corridor's surface. Perhaps, the most terrifying difference was that this pony-beast had what seemed like four separate jaws, each with their own set of sharp teeth.

The blasts were stopped by another strange force, a transparent barrier of energy. The green bolts dissipated, leaving a light blue glow on the surface of this strange shield.

A few more accurate shots destroyed the barrier and allowed another blast to hit the beast, causing a mixture of blue and purple liquid to splatter from the creature.

"Argh!" The creature screamed in pain. "Curse you demon."

'Demon, how dare this horrid creature mock us so.' Luna's moves accelerated, she was pulling triggers and pushing buttons with her magic. Her in-game puppet moved just as quick, it flung across the screen and continued to fire on the beast. 

Shots finally returned, the beast was on its hind legs holding a long pink device that shot lines of green towards Luna's character. A blue bar began decreasing at the top of the screen, each line of green causing it to drop every bit more.

Eyes focused and fully immersed Luna rapidly changed her pressure to another trigger. Her character threw a strange round object. Falling to the feet of the alien monstrosity forced an explosion from the object, splattering the beast into particles. 

'Huzzah! Princess Luna, the protector of the night and guardian of dreams, is once again victorious.'

"Sister!" Celestia's voice was angrily calling from the door, "Stop that ridiculous game, you have forgotten to lower the moon on time, again."

Her eyes darted to her clock, sure enough it was morning. "Apologies, dear sister."

Luna dropped her controller and stepped to the bedroom window. Directing her horn towards the moon she dragged it down with her Alicorn magic.





The two princesses were pacing through the royal gardens, the sun beamed down illuminating the colourful plant life around them.

"That is the third time this week Luna. You need to either leave that game alone or pace yourself, as princess of the night, you have other responsibilities in the dark hours." Celestia's tone displayed some anger, but Princess Celestia hated to show her emotions.

Luna looked back to her sister, her face regretful. " We just wished to experience the new types of entertainment that this world now offers. We are sorry."

Celestia bowed her head slightly in return, then changed the subject "Luna, you can speak by saying I and not 'we', I thought Twilight helped you with how you speak in this day."

"But we... I prefer the old ways, sister, I am not used to speaking as one of the common ponies." Luna spoke slower whenever she wanted to say 'we' instead of 'I'.

"They are more than common ponies, but I trust you will become more accustomed to the new world each day. Eventually I hope you become as one with today's life." Her head held high, Celestia spoke as a mentor to a student this time.

A small blue bird perched itself on a nearby plant, chirping a tune to the princesses. Luna smiled at the little creature, "Well at least the birds sing the same tunes."





Her horn glowing bright, Luna raised the moon as the sun was drawn down by Celestia, another beautiful night filled Equestria's skies. Once again the princess landed on her bed and floated the controller in front of her. 'Should we really be playing this game again? Maybe one more mission couldn't hurt and Celestia doesn't have to know.'

A small spark fell from her horn as she magically turned the game on. Once again she used her magic to levitate the controller before her. Luna's screen lit up in a blue glory to a familiar tune, she couldn't help but hum along to it.

She began moving pressure between buttons and the sticks. It took minutes for the floating pink vehicles and gunfire to hypnotize Luna, she lost all sense of the world around her all she wanted to do was kick some alien butt.

Flying around in amazing alien technology and firing at huge leviathans, Luna was no longer the princess of the night, she was the master pony, saving the universe from the covenant threat. Time was meaningless and her surroundings ceased to exist, all that was left was Luna and the world she was playing in.

From large groups of tiny whining gremlins to huge armored beasts with cannons instead of hooves, nothing stood in her way. She was an expert at all weapons and was leaving piles of alien bodies in her wake. Luna pumped the difficulty right the way to legendary, and still crashed through missions in record time, completing one after another until...

"Princess Luna!" Celestia stood at the door, Luna came back to the real world only to see her sister was definitely not happy.